Capricious Quote by Burton Malkiel Download Open image “It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.” — Burton Malkiel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capricious Capricious News Inspirational Investing Journalism News News Capricious Prices Capricious Stock price Stock Prices
I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked,… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed.… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and,… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
